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black_mouflon

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We just had the hotest day on earth since records began. Estimated to be the hotest day in the last 120,000 years. And this is the level of discourse around the issue of climate change. Cool and normal.

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Ok. If that is correct then my mistake. I guess I didn’t get that detail from my initial source. That makes me curious thought, who is being granted the approval from the president? Isn’t the executive branch of the goverment who desides for the export in the first place?

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Is that even a legitimate thing to do? Shouldn’t he seek congress aproval for that? It is a law after all. It reminds me when Trump said he declassified all these documents he cought with just becaus he said so, but in reality he didn’t go thought the official process to do so. I might also be wrong but currently it seems to me Biden is breaking a US law.

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Nope. You are wrong! https://www.hrw.org/news/2009/04/21/us-congress-bans-cluster-bomb-exports “new legislation signed into law by President Obama on March 11 permanently bans nearly all cluster bomb exports by the United States” It seems that export of such wepons is illigal by US law. The only exeption by that law will be un cluster bombs with less than 1% dud rate.

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